Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Jul 29, 2009 6:00pm PDTGoing to check out Neo Tokyo tonight. Heard many good things.
News:
- DJ Hero Renegade Edition unveiled
- Aliens vs. Predator trailer: Game Over
- Warren Spector's "Epic Mickey" looking as described
- World of Warcraft sells 8.6 million in US
- StarCraft 2 on track to sell 4 million in first months
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
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fuck me this thing is nice. i just unboxed mine, as i got it a couple days early as a birthday present.
now i need to buy the ps3 attachment.
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68.142.120.162:27016
Let's play some CS:S. Wish Rydogg1 would turn on alltalk.
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I had a bat INSIDE of my window fan and it kept on getting knocked out by the fan blades. My fan is now outside on my deck hopefully de-batting itself.
Now... how the fuck did a bat get into my bedroom? Where are his batty little friends? And how long did he crawl on my face while I was sleeping before he flew into my window fan?
There is no way in hell I can fall back to sleep.
Dudes, bat rabies.
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they really pulled it off.... instant purchase for me
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"If you liked ‘Transformers’ and ‘Star Trek’, you’ll love ‘Moon’. "
http://www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/film_info/m12092/
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/sms-hijack-iphone/
I remember reading about this last month, it's pretty cool that Apple hasn't released a patch yet. The vulnerability is going to be released in the wild today.
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Shatter
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-shatter/17-1102/
Anyone have this? Seems really fun and an awesome take on a brick breaking type game.
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I won't be making that mistake again anytime soon.
I didn't even know wtf was going on. Nobody on my team was talking, and the other team (in both cases) just raped faces. Both ended as concedes because we were down like 25:1 after 10 minutes.
I've seen more teamwork in basically every pub match I've played.
I really don't understand what I just played, but it was like a completely different game.
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I've got a site on 1and1.com that's hosted on a Windows machine. I've been hunting all over for a simple, clean, easy-to-update photo gallery that I can just plug in (so to speak) to the site. 1and1 has their own gallery thing, but it takes all your images and makes them something like 640x480 and you have no control over it.
I've spent about an hour digging through sourceforge.net stuff, but it looks like all the good galleries need a Linux server, not Windows. I wasn't able to get any of the Java-based ones to work either.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Act's 4 & 5 made up for the rest of the move game. Overall pretty decent experience. Act 3 was annoying as shit. I really have no idea what the fuck happened with the story but the action was pretty sweet.
There was a lot of things in the game that broke the immersion for me. Fan service aside, I hate it when Hideo does that in his games. There were a lot of cool moments even for someone who really only has played MGS1/2. Most of the story and past references were lost on me but it was cool seeing returning characters. The Psycho Mantis part was hilariously awesome.
I really hope the Raiden game coming out is like Ninja Gaiden. I want to FSU with him now.
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Seriously, if some bat magically appears in my room like what just happened to drucifer, I'm going to shit my pants and die.
And I was going to try to beat Source, Opposing Forces, and Blue Shift tonight, but I forgot how long these games were.
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Still great fun and the person I took really enjoyed it, although I do feel Death Proof should be the first movie and Planet Terror the second.
Good times.
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http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/
http://www.shackpics.com/files/madmen_fullbody_g6b2trbvclj1rpqr82ej.jpg
The music is hypnotizing.
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For some reason, I felt like it was a CG ad placed in the Blu-Ray version recently overt-op of what ad was originally there in the theater. Are studios doing that sort of ad-updating?
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http://www.wikiality.com/Gargoyles
"Thousands of years ago, gargoyles and bears battled one another, until the bears emerged victorious. Since then, gargoyles have been using their wings, tails and talons to protect bear territory, and will come to the aid of the Colbear during the Bear uprising of 2012."
....Colbert has a wikiweb now? How was I not aware of this?
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Is this Apple App Store shit going to reach a critical mass or are developers so hard on for this platform that they just don't give a shit? I really don't know what it is going to take. I never thought the app store was going to take off like it did as Windows Mobile has been an open platform for years where you can take 100% of the profit home and you can do whatever you want. But yet look what happened.
But surely they can't keep treating devs like this, right? guys?
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I don't have a Blu-ray player at all. Does this play Blu-ray discs? Also, is this worth it? Also, a good price to pay for it? And lastly, a good drive?
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Haven't played the latest one yet, but from everything you guys have said, it's incredibly easy, which is a shame. I still picked it up though when it dropped to $20. Hopefully they can make the next one more challenging.
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Anyone been to this tour yet? Anyone going tonight to Toronto?
Cash for Clunkers. Great idea, stupid implementation.
"At Holloway GM in Portsmouth, owner Scott Holloway said a handful or so trade-ins have resulted in $20,000 worth of expected reimbursements, and "it's a little bit of a concern" the money won't come in for some time.
As to when it will arrive, "It's the government, dude, your guess is as good as mine," he said. "You can't rush them."
Holloway said the deals cut at his business all appear to meet the requirements, but "the thing is you don't know whether they qualify yet because nobody can get an answer out of the government.""
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090730/GJNEWS_01/707309645
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For myself, it's about $900 less than the MacBook Pro 13" (I'd have to buy all my apps for Mac instead of reusing my Windows versions), but doesn't come with a CD/DVD drive. It looks decent in pictures though.
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Just tried Space Invaders: Infinity Gene. I was disappointed at first. The first few levels were pretty easy and there wasn't a lot going on. I didn't even die until the boss on level 1-6 because I wasn't paying a lot of attention. Then I got to Level 2 and my world was rocked.
This game, as the name implies, is all about evolving gameplay, and it changes so fast, you don't know what the fuck. It. Is. Awesome. Even more crazy than the video implied, and I think I'm hooked. Some of it I don't even understand, but I just want to go along with it. I figure that as I play, I'll unlock more stuff that will make me want to go back and play earlier levels again to try to kill even more stuff than before and find even more unlocks.
The best part, I think, is the ability to use your own music. The first time I tried it, I got a message that I've never seen on the iPhone before: "Out of memory. Please restart the device." I'm not sure if that message came from the OS or the game, but I complied and gave it another try. The choose your own song mode is even harder, probably because the levels are as long as your song. Those levels are generated based on the music, so it'll throw all sorts of stuff at you. The best one I've tried is Believe by Chemical Brothers. It created a level with these crazy narrow columns that I had to zig-zag back and forth through on the instrumental while blasting tiny space invaders shooting at me. It was a rush. Better than Audiosurf.
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again.. DK specs! so does anyone have a spec that has the mobility of the unholy and the good stuff of blood? i guess id only need up to on a pale horse hm. let me mess around and see what i come up with
i love riding around at 350% :O
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so a new trend ive seen that really annoys me is that there are groups (which are probably premade and they need another) where they set group loot to Rare instead of Uncommon
so do they just run around with a looting script looting all the bodies getting all the greens?
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/marines-trailer-aliens-vs/53511
http://popupideas.com/2009/07/information-is-nc-17/
noticed this myself tonight when I updated the app.... did a double take.
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http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/06/head-swap-2/
http://www.hulu.com/watch/65566/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-glenn-close-carrot-contest#s-p18-st-i1
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/clips/let-us-play-with-your-look-6909/1122157/
http://www.hulu.com/watch/84912/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-the-mighty-boosh#s-p9-sa-i1
SWORE he would be awful, but not too bad now. It is not THE FUNNIEST THING EVER, so don't assume I am putting it on a pedestal.
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